Leadership, management and command : rethinking D-Day / Keith Grint.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grint, Keith.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy.

World War, 1939-1945.

Leadership.

Strategy.

Management.

Physical Description:

viii, 503 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Contents:

Part 1 Leadership, Management and Command at D-Day 1

1 Problems, Understanding and Decision-Making 3

Part 2 Leadership and Wicked Problems 19

2 Western Allied Strategy: the Boxer and the Karateka 23

3 Allied Air Strategy 59

4 Planning to Mislead 80

5 German Strategy: Hard Shell, Soft Shell 116

6 Allied Ground Strategy 135

Part 3 Managing Tame Problems 151

7 Mobilizing the Anglo-Canadians, the Commonwealth, and the Volunteers 153

8 Mobilizing the Americans: Technology and the Iceberg 181

9 Mobilizing the Germans: the Wehrmacht and the SS 211

10 Managing Logistics: 'Bag, vomit, one.' 234

11 Technologies 264

Part 4 Commanding in Crises 305

12 Commanding 307

13 The Airborne Assaults 322

14 The Amphibious Landings 350

Part 5 Retrospective 415

15 Post-D-Day 417.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-492) and index.

ISBN:

0230543170

9780230543171

OCLC:

191009693